Bank of America · 1 day ago
Senior Architect
Charlotte, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expBank of America is committed to helping make financial lives better through every connection. The Senior Architect will lead the architecture, design, and implementation of Strategic Data Initiatives, focusing on building a Modern Data Platform and advocating for agile solution delivery practices.
Asset ManagementBankingFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services
Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates
Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
Facilitates solution driven discussions, leads the design of complex architectures, and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain, practical experiments, and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable
Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products
Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
Responsible for understanding emerging and evolving end user usage models and requirements in Big Data and Analytics, documenting those usage models and business, technical and user requirements and designing solutions to meet those requirements and specifying an implementation HW and SW solution stack that works seamlessly OnPrem and Cloud and enables self-service capabilities for technical and line of business users
Qualification
Required
8+ years of technical architecture and solutions experience including 5+ years of in a combination of relevant Big Data, Analytics and AI/ML areas
6+ years of hands-on experience in software development and/or data engineering
Experience building E2E Advanced Analytics and Big Data Platform that enables reporting, real-time analytics, and insight generation using AI/ ML techniques
Extensive Experience in Platform Architecture, Solution Design, Development and Deployment
Deep platform level understanding and 5+ years' experience with Big Data technologies including Hadoop, Impala, HIVE, Spark and NoSQL
Prior experience with Analytics and Machine Learning tools and technologies. (Anaconda, Python, R Studio, SAS)
Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining software frameworks using Kafka, Spark, Hadoop/MR, Spark Streaming, Python, etc
Demonstrated experience in real world IT or other solutions environments including creating (on your own or with a team) a product or IT solution in the area of Big Data & AI Analytics
Strong verbal and written communication skills, experienced in interacting with both technologists and business representatives
Comfortable representing company in industry standards organizations and/or industry technical forums
Strong technical team leadership and mentoring skills, highly collaborative with cross domain stakeholders
Ability to develop technical relationships with LOB Partners, Platform Architecture, Information Management, Security and Development teams
Deep Knowledge of Data Management & Governance principles, including metadata management, data lineage, data privacy & protection methodologies
Preferred
Underlying infrastructure for Big Data Solutions (Clustered/Distributed Computing, Storage, Data Center Networking)
Cloud and AI/ ML Modeling technologies and Industry vertical application for Big Data/Analytics
Strong understanding of OOP programming and architecture in either Java or Python
Experience designing, building and operating cloud services in IT, Systems Integrator or Service Provider
Experience designing and building full stack solutions utilizing distributed computing or multi-node database paradigms
Well versed with processing and deployment technologies such YARN, kubernetes/containers and serverless
Hands one experience on Java, Scala or Python
Expert level experience in performance engineering and managing large data platform that serve hundreds of peta bytes of data and thousands of tenants
Design effective proactive monitoring solutions and tests to ensure platform stability, resilience, and performance
Ensure non-functional requirements for performance (CPU usage, latency)
MS in Computer Science or related field
Company
Bank of America
Bank of America is a financial institution that offers credit cards, home loans, and auto loan services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.59BKey Investors
Berkshire Hathaway
2025-02-20Post Ipo Debt· $386.79M
2024-11-26Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2020-07-28Post Ipo Equity· $400M
Leadership Team
Charissa Messer
Senior Vice President, Creative Agency Executive (Enterprise Creative Solutions)
Rami Salem
SVP Strategic Competitive Intelligence
Recent News
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